Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Influencing skills. Collaborative decision making and problem solving.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Does your organization focus more on process than success? Are any of your executives thought leaders?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Yes, a good product may encourage sporadic customers but a good relationship will establish long-term, loyal customers. Develop a planning process that consists of setting measurable objectives. If you do not love it then do not sell it! Sell relationships not just a service or product.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. Sidebar : This post was inspired by a conversation I had last month Mark Oakes ( @MarkOOakes ) about the historical origin of the term&# Plan B.&#

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

There are many nutrients that we need on a daily basis to keep our bodies running efficiently ona a daily basis, not to mention long-term. Fish, in particular, has long been associated with being an excellent brain boosting food. Protein is known to keep you satisfied for longer periods of time.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? I really don’t have a problem with increasing efficiency so long as the tail doesn’t start wagging the dog. Are you efficient or effective, or do you know?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Long story short; if a leader receives a vote of non-confidence from their subordinates…game over. Only those leaders who can quickly recognize and adapt their methods to the situation at hand will be successful over the long haul. Any leader is only as good as his or her team’s desire to be led by them.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. impact the competitive arena.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs. They are important to me.

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CO2

MARCH 30, 2016

If “becoming wise” is a process, what does that process look like? What I try to do in the book is what my conversation partners have done for me: to demystify the meaning and the process of becoming wise. I started to ponder this seriously in the aftermath of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting in 2011. Why are you hopeful?

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CO2

MARCH 30, 2016

If “becoming wise” is a process, what does that process look like? What I try to do in the book is what my conversation partners have done for me: to demystify the meaning and the process of becoming wise. I started to ponder this seriously in the aftermath of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting in 2011. Why are you hopeful?

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Open-book Long-term Quality Morale 78

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Good performance measurement can help overcome the short- term bias of financial measures by explicitly monitoring how well a company or business unit is positioned to sustain and improve its financial performance. Short-term value drivers are the immediate levers of ROIC and growth.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For example, we might call a long-term customer on the day his annual report is due, and take it personally when he doesn’t have the bandwidth to give us feedback on our new product offering, or we might take rejection personally when a new sales call tells us it’s not a good time, not knowing that he’s late for his anniversary dinner.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

The manager needs to make sure that the company’s short and long-term objectives are always in the front of everyone’s mind, as well as make sure that every individual clearly understands what is expected of them on a day-to-day basis. “ Fc&# is Focus. ranked on a 1-10 scale.

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CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. When you consider the values in your company do you consider them in terms of bounded or unbounded values. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Too Much Innovation? Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. With advances in technology, mobiles are becoming more of a convergence device that replaces so many utilities (calculators, alarm clocks, small digital cameras etc.) that we used otherwise.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. There is a real elitist attitude that pervades the industry which tends to be process oriented rather than client oriented. It’s not about the process, it’s about results.

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CO2

MARCH 30, 2016

If “becoming wise” is a process, what does that process look like? What I try to do in the book is what my conversation partners have done for me: to demystify the meaning and the process of becoming wise. I started to ponder this seriously in the aftermath of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting in 2011. Why are you hopeful?

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Open-book Long-term Quality Morale 60

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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CO2

JANUARY 3, 2011

Once you have done this you then look at that information in terms of context or Orientation. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 The idea is that when moving to action you first observe the battlefield or what ever areana you are operating in. Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against? John Sullivan FORA.tv

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CO2

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I have the privilege recently to work with a technology company that has one of their three core values as innovative. When you consider the values in your company do you consider them in terms of bounded or unbounded values. Technology and its role in travel 2.0 Too Much Innovation? Pulse Meme Feed What Is Your Brand Against?

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Innovation Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Definition 60

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. These drivers underpin a number of stories from 2011, but a few new themes came out as well. Was a year like 2011 likely ? But please.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Between the economy and technology, everything is changing. Michael Hyatt : I have given a lot of thought to this, particularly in the Life Planning process that I advocate. Building flexibility into your planning, modeling, and processes simply allows you to better react to both internal and external changes.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience… seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. External-Marketplace.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Don’t let your intellect stand in your way, but rather use it as an asset to develop those around you to their full potential thereby increasing your chances for long-term success. stuck at my present level for so long. Is your experience similar to, or different than what I’ve shared above?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you still don’t know whether or not your attitude is affecting your performance, I would strongly suggest participation in a 360 review process where your strengths and weakness are objectively assessed by those whom you interface with on a frequent basis. Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

Get it done and get it done now is a real challenge that may not set up organizations for long term success. For more than two decades, Father Greg, a Jesuit priest, has been offering gang youths an opportunity to work and in the process discover an alternative to gang life.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2011

At the time our mission statement was, “ Anything for a buck, as long as it is legal and ethical. &# So we were paid to take a newsletter promotion Sid was doing for his business, we was a gifted writer (and a student of great copy writers), and attach a penny to each of the 18,000 newsletters. I have known Sid most of my life.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is a process or journey of becoming : Although certain people are clearly born with innate leadership qualities, without the right environment and exposure, they may fail to develop their full potential. Or, as you say, "leadership is a process of becoming." Which type of leader are you?

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In that post, I listed a number of things common to the political process that are terrible examples of how to behave when you are really trying to solve a problem or resolve a conflict. I am, though, a person who can observe the process and see how the current discussion has virtually no hope of arriving at a good conclusion.

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The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In that post, I listed a number of things common to the political process that are terrible examples of how to behave when you are really trying to solve a problem or resolve a conflict. I am, though, a person who can observe the process and see how the current discussion has virtually no hope of arriving at a good conclusion.

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Health Care Engineering System Politics 102

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Some may argue that the term revolutionary is too strong a word to use. There are places where the status quo has existed for too long and it’s no longer relevant. Paints a picture of a better future and walks people through the process to get there. To that, my answer is…maybe. Leads others by example.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation. Flash of inspiration.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

The Relational Leader : A Revolutionary Framework to Engage Your Team (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010) by Frank McIntosh The Relational Leader presents a framework to use as a compass point so that you can project a consistent message and methodology to your people. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Do you dig-in your heels and prepare to defend your position to the death, all the while not really caring about how many casualties are incurred in the process? While I long ago reached the conclusion that perception does in fact matter, it may not be for the reasons that you might think. I think the reticence of people to [.]

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